Ariel Rock
Supportive family-focused mental health care
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She draws on eight years of clinical experience across settings such as residential treatment, inpatient care, geriatric care, and independent practice.
Ariel aims to make the work feel practical and clear so parents and partners can take next steps without feeling overwhelmed.
Background and approach
She speaks in plain language and adapts to each family's routine and needs. In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different actions. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and coping skills.
Ariel tailors conversations and plans to each situation rather than relying on one single method. She has worked with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting, self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and attachment concerns.
Ariel has experience with personality and mood disorders and with skill-building around anger, boundaries, and self-regulation. Her approach is collaborative and respectful. She pays attention to what matters most to the family and helps set clear, manageable goals.
Ariel encourages small, steady changes that fit into daily life and supports clients as they try new ways of relating and parenting. She conducts sessions in English and practices in New York as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Ariel aims to help parents and families find practical strategies that improve day-to-day functioning and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches for online family work
Ariel commonly draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes that can reduce stress or improve parenting responses. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice painful feelings without getting stuck and commit to values-based actions that matter to their family life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ariel will talk with each client about goals, current struggles, and what feels doable. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative and outcome-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Ariel provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so parents can choose what fits their schedule and comfort level. These formats make it possible to practice skills between sessions and to check in with brief messages when quick support is helpful.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point